What is the rhetorical device of rushing down to stir up a snow?

This sentence uses a metaphor.

"Running down, stirring up a snow, all the way forward" is a metaphor. "Stir up a snow" is a metaphor for "Hong Tao", which describes the whiteness of the spray and vividly describes the whiteness of the spray and the vastness of the water potential.

This sentence is from walt whitman's My Song,/kloc-an outstanding American democratic poet in the 9th century.